biography
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Rockwell, Willard Frederick, Jr
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known as Al
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–92)
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| biography:
| Industrialist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In a long career in family-owned companies, he created Rockwell International, a major aerospace conglomerate best known under his leadership for its work on the US Apollo space programme. He retired from Rockwell in 1984. He founded Astrotech International Corp (1981) to promote commercial applications of space exploration, retiring finally in 1989. |
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